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  1. [Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany on the 16th of June 1938 in Paris. Information that the American Advisory Committee for the Evian Conference would welcome a Memorandum from the Liaison Committee and that a Delegate from the Committee might attend the Conference. Decision to present a Memorandum dealing with the position of refugees that already left Germany and Austria and pointing out the need for further emigration for them. Different suggestions regarding the Memorandum by several members of the Sub...

  2. Letter to Moses Beckelman, Vilno, 1940

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Letter from the "Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939" to the Director General of the "American Joint Distribution" Moses Beckelman, outlining their work. The committee, consisting of 60 polish-jewish writers and journalists, was gathering information about what happened to Jews since the outbreak of the war, including information about Jews suffering in Concentration camps. The letter describes the efforts that the committee was undertaking to collect material, namely, to organize staff, to interview refugees, and to type down everything so it...

  3. Jews in Sweden IV

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fourth part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. It is a continuation of the previous compilation of group 2 (Jews who arrived after June 26th, 1945). The lists are in alphabetical order consisting of last and first name, date of birth, last domicile and identity card no. and are grouped by nationality.

  4. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organizations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, the American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing or continuing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia, funds for a Kosher Kitchen and an old aged home in Prague. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstruction of a hospital and claims involving restitution of Jewish property.

  5. Jüdische Warenlager

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and aryanizations are given. A table of contents of owners of Jewish warehouses is attached. For example, the textile warehouse of the factory of Ferdinand Bloch. The document provides information about the sale of the warehouse after deducting the costs. The sale brought in ffrs 39780. The warehouse of Marx Bloch was also sold and the proceeds were transferred to that of the head of the civil adm...

  6. [DALJEWCIB Correspondence regarding the non-availability of Manchurian transit-visa and entry permits through Manchurian dipomatic channels in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB Correspondence regarding the non-availability of Manchurian transit-visa and entry permits through Manchurian dipomatic channels in Germany. Furthermore the prospect is mentioned that Mandchukuo might not be willing to let European refugees into its territory. However, refugees arriving at the Soviet-Manchurian border station are granted entry permits and permanent residency permits if they manage to aquire work and establish residence within 20 days of their arrival.

  7. The Position of the Jews in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (October)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report of 1937 about the position of Jews in Yugoslavia written in German. The Jewish Central information Office published every month a new report, regarding the situation of Jews in Germany or Europe. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam University, founded the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO). This report is devided into...

  8. The Germans in Lodz - Bulletin No. 5

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the German occupation of Lodz. The bulletin surveys such topics as forced conscript labor, to which the Jews were forced by the German occupying forces, and which resulted in wounds and casualties, disruption of the management and leadership of the Jewish community, and the installment of yellow star. The bulletin details the looting of Jewish businesses and seizure of property, as well as the financial restrictions on buying and selling to non-Jews...

  9. [Actions of governmental and privat organizations in regard to refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondences between privat and governmental organizations in regard to refugees. Memoranda, reports, letters and plans of action can be seen. The principle of these organization is to protect the human victims of great political upheavals and especially of the intolerance of arbitrary governments. The 'League of Nation Union', for example, published an aide-mémoire concerning the problem of the refugees. Topics mentioned in the aide-mémoire are the coordination and cooperation to assist the German and Austrian refugees, as well as refugees from Czechoslovakia. Weather ...

  10. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several letters. Various grants have been given by the Central British Fund for establishing an old aged home in Bratislava and a recreation home for the youth in Beskydy. Furthermore problems have been mentioned of ealier grants for student bursaries given by the Central British Fund concerning their appropriate use. The correspondence is between members of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovaki, the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia and th...

  11. Die Territorial-Bewegung

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of Max Apt's paper on the history of the Diaspora. “The Territorial movement” (Israel Zangwill) believed in the establishment of a Jewish state in a territory other than Palestine to avoid conflict with the Arab population. The file lists abstracts from the Geneva conference of the International Labor Office from March 7, 1938 by South American government representatives. A letter to Dr. Apt from the American embassy is included. The next chapter deals with the “Evian conference” which tried to find a solution to the refugee crisis. The chapter includes extensive ...

  12. Child- Tracing

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two letters from the Chief Representative of Central Tracing Bureau, Berlin to the Red Cross Netherlands, Berlin. In the first short letter the CTB asks to forward documents (21.10.1947). In the second one the CTB is requesting help from the RCN in order to find out what happened to a working camp in Finow, Brandenburg /Germany in which 60 Ukrainians boys were held until 1945. Furthermore, they seek help to investigate a children's hospital in Dresden (21.10.1947).

  13. Bulletin D'Informations

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains bulletins of the Coordinating Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations published in Brussels in 1946. The association aims to "defend, study and develop Jewish values ​​in Belgium and the world. In 1984, the institution renounced its initial name and became known as the Coordinating Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations. The CCOJB commissioned a research about the Jewish communities in the former occupied countries, especially in Belgium. The research showed that the economic situation for Jews was horrible, also the antisemtism was still part of everyday live. So the...

  14. [Visas for Shanghai refugees for entry into Mandchukuo via Japanese occupied Dairen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The response of DALJEWCIB office in Harbin concerning a request for entry visas for Jewish refugees from Shanghai willing to relocate to Harbin, Manchoukuo, and transit visas for Japanese occupied Dairen in Northern China.

  15. [Clarification letter of DALJEWCIB Dairen [Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China)]to the branch in Shanghai, concerning the misinformation among Jewish refugees regarding the visa formalities and travel arrangements]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    [Clarification letter of DALJEWCIB Dairen[Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China)]to the branch in Shanghai, concerning the misinformation among Jewish refugees regarding the visa formalities and travel arrangements to be upheld for legal entry and residence into Dairen and Harbin]

  16. The Germans in Warsaw - September-October 1939 -Bulletin No. 2

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the German siege and occupation of Warsaw. The bulletin consists of fragments of various testimonies of Jews from Warsaw collected by the committee, together with some committee remarks in between quotations. It states that the German bombardment targeted Jewish quarters of Warsaw specifically, and describes the mass of casualties from bombs and fires in the city. The bulletin describes the dispersal of the self-governing Jewish community and the es...

  17. The Tragedy of Goworowo - Bulletin No. 1

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the destruction of the Jewish community of Goworowo in the first months of the war. The bulleting consists of a summary of the testimony of a woman from Rozan, here referred to as X, elsewhere giving her name as Rachel B. the bulletin describes the gathering of Jews into the synagogue and holding them for hours under threat of incendiary bombs and fire. Many of the men were taken out and shot. In the end they were let out under German fire, to see t...

  18. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regarding destitute nature of emigrees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regarding destitute nature financial situation of in China arriving Jewish emigrees and refugees from Germany and the restrictions put on Jewish refugees arriving from Austria via the Siberian land route

  19. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Translated correspondence of DALJEWCIB with potential and recent emigrants from Germany regading living conditions, housing arrangements, work possibilities, exit- and entry permits into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, how to obtain permanent resident status and Manchurian-/Japanese entry-/residence visa

  20. [DALJEWCIB correspondence regarding the finalizing of entry visa regulations for Dairen and Manchukuo by the country's officials]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin regarding the finalization of visa regulations for temporary and permanent residential status in Mandchukuo detailing regulations for European Jewish refugees in terms of entry into Mandchukuo by sea or landroute. Different rules apply according to Mandchurian officials.